Improvement in water elevators and conveyers



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

DANIEL Silll'lll AND IILLIAM P. TALLIN l, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT lN WATER ELEVATORS AND CONVEYERS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,183, dated May 6, 1862.

T0 all 107mm/ it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL U. SMITH and WILLIAM P. MAILING, of Adrian, county of Lenawee, and. State ot' illichigan, have inf` vented 'a new and useful Improvement in Mav ehines for 'Raising a nd Conveying Tater from Tells and Springs to the House or Place Desired; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to a certain improve- Inent in that class ot' water elevating' and conveying machines in which the buckets or pails are connected to carriages that run on inclined wires orways from the well or spring' to the place desired, the wires being suspended a perspective view exhibiting the several I parts`-viz., posts A and lll, windlass C, shaft 6, rope l), sheave E, sink l", spout G, posts H H, girt I, shores .l J, carriage K, wires L L, plate M, blocks N N, slots (l U, slot l), post Q, rod R, shoulder S, spring 'l`, spring li', clamps V Y, inclined planes X X, wheels Y Y, sheaves Z Z Z, paw] l2, catch i3, spring li, tackle-block, (seen at the numeral 1,) bucket S, its cover 114, and bail 2. fliig. Ll is a perspective view ex. hibiting parts that cannot be clearly seen in Fie'. lf-namelv shoulder S lug IS, rod 3 and 2: J 7 J I Fig. Il exhibits the plate )I removed well, he lets go ot' the crank heretofore depin from the carriage l( `for the purpose ot' cx- )lainine' the slot` l? and catch i3 moreI clearlv 1 h l I ot shatt (i, which In turn leaves the wmdlass than can be done in Figs. l and The windlass t is attached to post A by means ot its shat't l. (ln the opposite end of l' said shaft is a crank attaelufd, said crank being omitted in the drawings.

The wires L L i and sheaves descriljied by the dotted lines Z Z Z and attached to bail 2 at 16,1hereb57 attaching the bucket S to carriage K by means of block l, and the wheels Y Y, which are four in number, are attached on opposite sides of carriage K bv means ot' their axles 7. The peripheries of said wheels are grooved to admit rod 3, said rod being firmly attached to the cover 4. (Seen in Fig. 2.) By reference to Fi'g. 2 it will be seen that the carriage is constructed of two pieces, (marked K K,) said pieces being held apart by means ot blocks N N, the whole being riveted together, thereby leaving room between said pieces sufficient to admit of the sheaves described by the dotf ted lines Z Z. The clamps V V are attached to the opposite sides of carriage K by means of their pivots IV, with their lower ends extending below the wires L L. The spring U is attached to the upper end of said clamps.

By reference to Fig. 3 it will be seen that the slot P is much wider at one end than at the other, which is to admit of the lug 18 (seen on the upper end of block l in Fig. 2) to pass through said slot, while the other end of slot is contracted to a suitable width to admit of the block l to pass between the shoulder S, as seen in Fig. 2. The pawl 12 is pivoted to post N at 2l. The spring M is attached to the same post at 22. The catch 13 is tir1nlv held or att-ached to plate ill with one of its ends in range with the .shoulders S S, as is seen in Fig. The post Q is iirml7 attached to the plate M at 23. The spring T is attached to the post Q and block N b v means of the rod R, that plays through the holes in the top ol' said block and said post.

re will describe the operation ot' our Inachine as follows: Then the operator wishes to draw a bucket of water from the spring or scribed, which is attached to the farther end C free to revolve with said shaft, by which means the carriage K is liberated from its pcsition, as seen in Fig. 2. The force of its gravitation causesthc said carriage to descend the wires L L until the carriage K runs over the well or spring, at. which point post B is struck at 9 by the end of plate M. The

momentum acquired by the descent of car-V riage K on the wires L L causes plate M to move longitudinally sufficient to force the shoulder S from under the lug 1S, at the same time contracting spiral spring T, that surrounds rod R between block N and post Q. Simultaneous therewith the inclined planes of their running on the wires LL. The bail' X X are forced between t-he tops of clamps Qis attached to the bucket S bv means of the l V V under spring U, forcing apart the tops of clampsA V V and oscillating said clamps on pivots XV. Only one of said pivots canv be seen in the drawings, one being opposite pivot NV on carriage K. i hen the tops of said clamps are forced out, the bottoms pinch the wires LL and force them iirmly against the sides ot' carriage K at 24, th ereb')`7 'fastening the carriage K stationary over the well or spring while the bucket S is passing into the well or spring by its own gravity. The plate M, as seen in Fig. l., is held in position bymeans of pawl l and catch ll. Then to raise the bucket from the well or spring the operator turns the crank on sh aitt (l, which in turn revolves windlass (l, which in turn .raises the bucket 8 by means of the rope D winding around windlass (l. Then when the bucket is raised np the top of block l strikes pawl 12 at 2G, and .raises said pawl until it liberated from the catch l leaving spring T free to force plate M, by means of post Q, back to its vformer position. As the plate M moves back, it withdraws inclined planes X .X trom-between the tops of clamps Y Y, thereby leaving spring U tree to contractthe tops of clamps V V, forcing the bottoms of said. clamps tree from the wires L L, leaving the carriage K free to be drawn by rope D, as seen in Fi 2. Thus it can be seen that the clam ps Y V perform a twofold officeviz., acting as guides while the carriage K ascending or descending the wires L L; secondly, acting as clamps to tasten the carriage K Afirmly over the well or sprin while the water is being raised therefrom. As the rope D is wound on windlass C, the carriage K ascends the wires L L, carrying with it the bucket S by means of lug 1S, resting on shoulder S, as seen in Fig. 2, until the sink F is struck by the lower part of bucket 8. Pin '5 on said bucket catches on sink F, and causes bucket S to tilt on rod 23 Aas the carriage advances and discharge its contents in sink F and to pass through spout G.

At'ter having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with carriage K, of the plate M, arranged to work in joint operation with springl l`, pawl l2, incline planes X X, clamps V Y, and lug 1S, t'or the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the foregoing, the bail 2,rod El, and cover l, connected together, as described, and for thc purpose specified.

DANIEL C. SMITH. lVM. P. VALLING.'

In presence ot- WM. S. G-REENLY, NVM. H. GREENLY. 

